Carry On Langport!: Saturn space probe success...

First 'ground-breaking' photographs arrive of distant planet's surface

NASA says it's "delighted" with the photographs received on Earth this morning from its space probe Cassini which has, for the first time, taken pictures of the surface of the planet Saturn.

"The first picture [top] definitely reveals some sort of bizarre and way-out pond-life community living along what looks like a narrow causeway"said a spokeswoman.

Launched in 1997, the probe also captured this extraordinary image inside a local cave:

"I realise the quality isn't too good" said the spokeswoman "but we believe it could be three fossilized life forms...frozen in time by Saturn's poisonous gases thousands of years ago"

But NASA's excitement was short-lived when it emerged that at around 4 o'clock this afternoon the Cassini probe crashed into this ancient stucture...

It had been attempting to travel to an area of Saturn's surface astronomers call 'Aller Moor' to photograph what's believed to be foundations for one of the biggest solar farms in the galaxy - but it hit something called the '1350 to Exeter St Davids' and was destroyed.

But all is not lost: another Saturn probe, the House IV, is due to arrive at the planet next week where it'll be taking pictures of a number of boarded up caves across the same area...

- and it'll be shortly followed by the Priest Lane 69...which it's hoped may uncover more about how the original inhabitants of the planet enjoyed themselves after the pubs closed.

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